Annotation:Mrs. Fraser of Lovat
X:1 T:Mrs. Fraser of Lovat's Strathspey C:Robert Petrie S:Petrie's Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c., 1790 Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 3/5/04 N:Petrie's First Collection, page 5 L:1/8 M:C R:Strathspey K:Am A | E<A,E>D E<A,A,>C | B,G E/D/C/B,/ D<G,G,>B, | EA,TE>D E<A,A,>C | DE/F/ E/D/C/B,/ CA,A, :| B | A<ac<a Aac<A | G<gB<g G<gd<B |A<ac<a Aae<c | B/c/d/B/ e/d/c/B/ c<AA>B | A<ac<a Aac<A | G<gB<g G<gd<B |A/B/c/A/ B/c/d/B/ c/d/e/c/ d/e/f/d/ | eE e/d/c/B/ cAA |]
MRS. FRASER OF LOVAT. AKA and see "Honorable Mrs. Fraser of Lovat (The)." Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The composition is generally credited to Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler biography:Robert Petrie, in whose 1790 collection the strathspey was first printed. he tune is unattributed in the Gow and Mackintosh collections, although MacDonald in his later 1887 collection credits the composition to Petrie.
The strathspey's title probably refers to Jane Fraser of Leadclure, who had married Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat in 1763. He was the second son of Simon "The Fox" Fraser of Jacobite fame, and assumed the Chiefship of Clan Fraser upon the death of his brother, also Simon Fraser, in 1782. The couple had five children, most of whom predeceased them.
